Former Georgia Rep. Doug Collins wrote in an op-ed Tuesday, Major League Baseball (MLB) owes Georgia an apology for moving the All-Star game out of Georgia and listening to Stacey Abrams.
Collins posed a straightforward question, “Will the MLB stop playing games in California and New York due to their lack of early voting?”
Collins explained that in the “aftermath of the 2020 election, Georgians were angry, and rightfully so.” Instead of sitting by and doing nothing as the rest of the states did, on election integrity, Georgia did, he said. The Georgia legislature authored Senate Bill 202, passed and then signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. The bill “implemented much-needed reforms to ensure Georgia’s elections are fair, accessible, secure, and transparent,” he said.
He continued to say it “comes as a surprise to no one” that one of the people opposing the bill is none other than Stacey Abrams, an ex-Georgia State Representative who lost the gubernatorial race against the Governor in 2018.
Collins said Abrams did “what she does best: she spouted off false claims of voter suppression, attempting to paint Republicans in Georgia as racist, bigoted, and evil,” Collins added, Abrams still hasn’t admitted that she lost the election, against Kemp, even with every opportunity she’s add in the public eyes. Abrams keeps claiming the election “was stolen from her because Republicans used illegal voter suppression tactics to target people of color.
“Between 2014 and 2018, voter turnout among minorities in Georgia actually soared. With Latinos and African Americans, voter turnout increased by double digits for both men and women,” Collins added, further saying, PolitiFact stepped in to correct Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) after they echoed false claims about the 2018 election, about there being voter suppression and voting purges that cost Abrams the election.
Collins said, “Georgians are sick and tired of Abrams using false claims of voter suppression as a political weapon.” Due to her false claims about the election integrity bill, companies like “Delta, Coca-Cola, and Major League Baseball (MLB) are falling for her and her allies’ bullying tactics.”
Collins also mentioned Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-GA) statement, which only expressed disappointment in MLB’s decision which is “unfortunate” for Georgia businesses. As Collins said, what do you think would happen when the lies are spread about the bill for weeks.